Series III Purchase!

Hi all,

I'm planning on joining the Land Rover series owners club by making my first land rover purchase.

A family member is selling a 1980 Series III SWB Hard Top with only a few thousand on the clock and has been kept in a garage all its life! for £900! now correct me if i'm wrong but that sounds damn good!

I've a couple of questions if you'll bare with me!

It hasn't moved for a year or two! and I'm yet to travel and visit it. I'm going to take some fuel and a battery booster but any other recommendations for getting it going? Quite simply no one has tried or is near enough to where its kept to find out if it starts or not!

How capable are the 3series at the rough stuff? We have a rather steep u- even field i'd love to try it on but i can't find any information about its gradient limits etc and most photos on the internet show them sitting on a flat field or someone's drive way!

Any answers or ideas will be well recieved!

Cheers

Tom

A Series Landy will pretty much go anywhere a Defender will go, have a look here. http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f13/weekend-31st-may-laning-herts-57887.html

£900 sounds OK if it isn't rotten. I'd change all of the fluids and filters asap. Tyres may be shot if it's sat for ages too.

Sounds a steal! Is it a petrol or doosul? Chassis & bulkhead are everything, but if it's been that well kept you should be lucky. Take a big screwdriver and have a really good hard poke about at the chassis.

Oh, & take a camera cuz we like piccies on here.

As for capabilities, heres some pics of mine doing some stuff last w/end. http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f13/submariners-do-salisbury-58013-6.html

ferget the battery booster and take a fully charged up battery. the one thats in it is gonna be fooked

AA / RAC member

Cheers guys!

looks good, still tempted with a defender though! Not sure when i'm gonna be able to take a look at the landy - hopefully sooner than later, i'll take a pile of photos.
Luckily my brother is a mechanic - i'm going to have to employ him for the day me thinks! thanks for the advice and photos, i'll let you know what i choose to do.